The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1887-01-13
TOWN. 4, RANCE 80.

liz ullc NSdliltl vi IAC luot OLA t"N'
was appreciated SO highly caught a severe
cold, last week.
Little Maud who has been demonstrating
| with her sister, Miss Gertie Coleman, suffered
4 severe attack of Group, on Saturday night
last, which kept them up all night. n kind
friend, Baxter Davis, brought them to then
| old home on Sabbath. She is much better at
this writing.
That severe cold the weather caught, last
week, appears to be pretty thoroughly broken
up. A few doses of the suns rays, admins.
tered with several applications of warm
breezes from the north, had a wonderful
effect in ameliorating the atmosphere. In
plain English, we are having a spell of fine
weather.
We have thought, should an angel visit this
mundane sphere, we didn't know of q more
suitable place for its appearance than Town.
4, Range 80, Red Willow county, Nebraska.
We were pleasantly surprised to learn that
OH the afternoon of December Both, 1856, one
made its appearance here. Its arrival was
hailed with ecstacies of delight by our friends,
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Angelof this town, where
it applied for shelter and care. 1t is of the
masculine gender and weighs ten pounds.
All doing nicely, Chas. included. They call
him Alva. May his life be all his name I'M
plies, as pure and innocent as an Angel.
Miss Gertie Coleman and Miss Hettie
Moore were passengers on No. 40, Wednes-
day. They go to Franklin, this state, by invi-
tation, to participate i'll the wedding festivi-
ties of Miss Mabel Wilson, which takes place
Thursday. From there they go to the old
home of Miss Moore near Alma, where they
will spend several days visiting friends before
returning to McCook. Miss Wilson was an
old class-mate of Miss Moore at the Frank
lin Academy. We intimate to Miss Mabel it
would afford us great pleasure to test her
proficiency in the culinary art. In other
words, pass the pie"
NJ. Ii. Cole and family arrived in this town.,
June 23d, 1884. He had taken claim in Feb
ruary previous. After paying freight on some
farm implements and household goods, they
had but few dollars left. His principal CAPT.
tai consisted of a spirit of indomitable energy
and an intelligent, industrious wife, possess
ing-according to Size-more energy than
himself. Their worldly possessions consist
ed, principally, of three horses and a few cows.
They went to work with a will and nov have
q large portion in cultivation, their farm all
under fence, with a cross fence-making two
fields, a good comfortable residence, stabling,
shed 20X50 feet in size, two wells, with wind
mill at one well, on a substantial tower, neatly
painted. He stated some time since, that he
could see nc object in accepting $4,000 for his
farm, as he did not know where he could
better himself. They were renters in Iowa
and their experience was, it took about all
they could raise i'll the summer to keep them
through the winter. To sum i up, the follow
ing result is obtained: At the end of 10 years
labor on a rented farm in Iowa, they are
worth $500. 2X years on a farm of their own
in Red Willow county, and they are worth
S2,SO0. The above are facts that will bear
investigation. VIM. Coleman is responsible
for inducing them to locate in this county.
We toss our cap up for Red Willow county
every time.
Is it not surprisingly strange how weighty
some of these energetic school marms are?
1t is our good fortune to be appreciatively
acquainted with one, whom a good mathe-
matician might presume to estimate her
weight, with some degree of accuracy, at
one hundred and twenty-five pounds ayOir-
dupOis. But, being unacquainted with her
powers of endurance and will force, one
would naturally conclude it would tax her
energies severely to successfully hold a jack
rabbit down for any considerable length of
time; yet she is holding down, to a nicely,
a choice piece of land, where she may enjoy
and sing of peace and plenty on a forty
acre farm" Now if some energetic (?) young
man, or old BACH, should call to inquire after
the state of her health, with one eye on her
hand and heart, the other at the farm, We
would say to her, give them the advice the
white hated philosopher Greeley gave to
Hon. j. b. Grinnell of Iowa, "Go west young
man, go west, and grow up with the-Other
calves of the country" Some way that don't
seem to be the exact quotation, but probably
very applicable in this case. We hope
Miss j. will take no offense at this bit of
pleasantly. If she should, and proceeds to
apply her energies to the reducing of Our
corpulency, we'd wish it were the Sd of July,
and we aboard the train bound for Denver.
We would flee to the mountains. climb Pixies
Peak, seek some secluded retreat in the
Garden of the Gods" hide in the Gave of
the Winds" or"Grand Caverns, to avert our
fearful and certain doom. We would not
give much for what's left when she got
through with US. But she has such a kind,
affectionate heart, we don't feel a bit afraid,
but proceed in the even tenor Of our way,
singing,
We wan to be q granger,
And with the granger stand,
A tub of 'taters on our head,
4 pitch-fork ia each hand.
CYISCrR